I'm receiving miss addressed mail?

Yang Xiao yxiao2004 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 3 22:14:17 UTC 2004


On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 14:07:51 -0800, Richard E Miles
<r.godzilla at comcast.net> wrote:
> I am receiving mail addressed to someone else. My mail address is
> r.godzilla at comcast.net. I have received mail addressed to:
> r.godzilla at calamitygrowing.com and from:
> joe-blow at comcast.net. These are not forwarded mails. How is this possible?
> I use fetchmail to receive my mail. Is there anyway to stop this?
> These are just two examples. I have received similar miss addressed mail from
> other names also. Can a procmail rule be used to stop this? If so what would that
> rule be?
> 
> --
> Richard E Miles
> Federal Way WA.
> registered linux user 46097

Read the message header and you will see why, I don't know what you
are using as mail client, but most of them allows you to read the
actual header.

Yang




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